HapMap Launched With Pledges of $100 Million

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HUMAN GENOME:
HapMap Launched With Pledges of $100 Million

Jennifer Couzin

A consortium of six nations is diving into a massive new genomics project it hopes will pinpoint the genes behind common diseases. The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced earlier this week that it's garnered the $100 million the 3-year effort to construct a so-called haplotype map is likely to cost. But even as the project was announced with considerable fanfare, many details remained sketchy.

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